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Fencer Vulns
low 3.7

CVE-2026-16207 json

django-tastypie authentication.py ApiKeyAuthentication get request method with sensitive query strings

published 2026-07-19 3 mo ago modified 2026-07-20 3 mo ago also EUVD-2026-45418

cvss
3.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability was detected in django-tastypie up to 0.15.1. Impacted is the function ApiKeyAuthentication of the file tastypie/authentication.py. The manipulation results in use of get request method with sensitive query strings. The attack can be launched remotely. This attack is characterized by high complexity. The exploitability is considered difficult. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-16207 updated cvss 3.7

django-tastypie: ApiKeyAuthentication accepts credentials from URL parameters and CacheThrottle can be bypassed with concurrent requests

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X
CNA 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:X/RL:X/RC:R
CNA 3.0 3.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:X/RL:X/RC:R
CNA 2.0 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:ND/RL:ND/RC:UR
CNA 4.0 6.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CNA 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CNA 2.0 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • n/a django-tastypie

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-598 Use of HTTP Request With Sensitive Query String

References

Sources

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